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barbacoa | on: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
It's being reported that the girl he was involved with was spying for China and this was some kind of honey pot operation.
Conscat | parent | next
To be clear, she is an adult woman.
m10i | root | parent
That should already be clear. Otherwise "was involved with" would not be an appropriate/applicable term.
jdiff | root | parent
It's not at all given that it would be appropriate.
m10i | root | parent
> given that it would be appropriate.

It would not be considered appropriate for Jensen to be having an affair with someone underaged. That is the current subtext.

jdiff | root | parent
Not exactly subtext but yes, it would be inappropriate. I'm noting that "inappropriate" != "impossible." Many of his peers have done exactly such a thing.
jacquesm | parent
Unlike some other Americans Huang seems to at least have a preference for people who are no longer minors, also, using 'girl' robs the woman of agency.
m10i | root | parent
> using 'girl' robs the woman of agency

... only if she hates the word 'girl', I guess. Which we don't know. Personally, I know many grown women (30's, 40's+) who are perfectly alright with the word "girl". It is contextual, and often times cultural (i.e. your background).

No offense, but this is why it can often be pernicious to do drive-by virtue-signaling online.

> Unlike some other Americans Huang seems to at least have a preference for people who are no longer minors

What does this even mean?... do you think what you're implying is exclusive to Americans? Honestly that's what it sounds like.

vigilantpuma | root | parent
Most women who are okay with being called a girl are okay with it only in certain contexts. For example I don’t know any woman who is in her 30s or 40s who would be okay with being referred to as a girl in a professional context.
m10i | root | parent
> professional context.

But this isn't the workplace slack. And again, correcting is one thing, but only if you're unequivocally correct, which the above poster is not.

To be honest, it seems what they've mainly accomplished is cause a distraction from the substance of what the person was trying to convey.

vigilantpuma | root | parent
Yeah, workplace slack isn’t what I am talking about.

You are also not “unequivocally correct” so perhaps you are applying a standard to others you can’t live up to yourself.

m10i | root | parent
I might be mistaken about this, but your point isn't clear.

And instead of a clarification, you replied with a straw-man:

> perhaps you are applying a standard to others you can’t live up to yourself.

I never claimed to be "unequivocally correct”.

vigilantpuma | root | parent
No, but you did seem to imply that unless one is unequivocally correct, one should not be issuing corrections. Perhaps I misread.